1. What is History?
With your “triad” complete activites in “What is History?”
Reflect on your participation with your team, when done!

2. What is History? History is essentially the study of people
How they lived
What they valued
How their lives were influenced by the time and place in which they were born

3. Studying History Helps Us…
To better understand why our modern world is the way that it is and we can investigate the causes and consequences of specific historical events

4. Historians Need to Work as Detectives
Piecing together the pieces to be able to come to some conclusions about what life was like in the past

5. Historical Terms
Era – often used to describe a particular period of history (e.g., “the medieval era”)
Circa (abbreviation c.) – used when exact data is not known (e.g., c.1950)
Chronological order – dates listed from earliest to the most recent (e.g., 1450, 1830, 1927, 2001)

6. Historical Evidence Sources historians examine to learn about the past
Hypothesis – argument which investigates / explains behavior of people in the past
Evidence:
literary (written) – e.g., letters, diary entries, symbols or
non-literary (not written) – e.g., artifacts such as vases, photos, buildings

7. Historical Evidence
Primary – originate from the historical period being investigated (e.g., ancient bracelet)
Secondary – produced later in time, and usually base ideas on primary source evidence (e.g., textbook)
Historians need corroborating evidence (2 or more sources) which provide same evidence in order to be reliable or complete

8. What Evidence Might we Leave For Future Historians?
Computers
Xbox 360
Stores
Kitchen appliances
Books
Photos
Fashion magazine TV
Litter
Calendar
Converse runners
Video game case
Criteria sheet for a project
iPhones
Couch
Hoodies
Car
Credit cards
Pencil
Skateboards
Apple laptop
money
Our bones
scooters

9. Show what you know What is history? How does history help us?
Historians need to work as ________________.
What do historians examine to learn about the past? ________________
Evidence can be written or non-written. Given an example of each below:
Written _______________________ Non-written ________________________
What is the difference between a primary and secondary source?
What evidence might we leave behind? Name two.

10. How did i/we do?